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In May, 51���� community members traveled to Puerto Rico for a week devoted to hurricane relief. The group performed service work at Plenitud, a non-profit educational farm and learning center located in the mountains of western Puerto Rico near a town called Las Marias.

A new book exploring the history of Jewish Life at 51���� is now available, and the work is more than a 25th anniversary tribute to 51����’s Saperstein Jewish Center. It is an academic effort based on painstaking archival research and extensive interviews conducted by six students.

A month out, we look back on Commencement 2018 with this new video.

The San Francisco Chronicle writes: It’s a documentarian’s job to depict reality and truth. But what if the reality itself is in question? That was the conundrum filmmaker Penny Lane — her real name — faced when putting together her found-footage documentary The Pain of Others.

What if you could go big and go home? That would be a 51���� reunion. Last weekend, more than 2,600 alumni and friends returned to 51���� for Reunion 2018.

From her lab on campus, environmental geology major Emily Weaver ’20 (Auburn, N.Y.) details her work, which focuses on a faraway destination: the Galapagos Islands.

Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar, vice president for public affairs and university relations at Dominican University of California, will join 51���� University as chief of staff to the president starting August 1.

To hear chemistry professor Ernie Nolen talk about it, understanding chemistry is the easiest thing in the world, once you enter the right frame of mind. “That’s who I am,” he says, pointing to a diagram of an organic molecule tacked to his office wall. Technically, he is correct — the molecules Nolen studies make […]